iread Blogs
The iread Blogs were created to bring
together the reading experiences, tastes and reviews of librarians together
in a single place, to be shared.
Many librarians contributing to the mysteries blog, for example, means that
many libraries (and therefore readers!) will be able to see the reviews of
more books than the staff of any one library could hope to find time to read
and review.
You can link to the blogs themselves on your website, or use the rss feeds from the blogs and re-publish the feed on the library's website—with much less work on your part than if you had to do all the reading and reviewing by yourself.
Current Blogs:
 | I Read Picture Books (designed for parents, grandparents, other caregivers) |
| Kids' Reads! |
| RadReads for Teens |
| I Read Mysteries |
| I Read Romance |
| I Read Sci Fi and Fantasy |
| I Read Historical Fiction |
| I Read Fiction |
| I Read NonFiction |
iread Blogs use Blogger http://blogger.com
To become a member of the team of one or more
blogs above,
contact Karen or Michele:
| Karen Burns kburns@swilsa.lib.ia.us |
| Michele Leininger michele.leininger@lib.state.ia.us |
Tutorials:
| Online Tutorial for contributing to iread blogs: Contributing to iread Blogs http://www.swilsa.lib.ia.us/tutorials/ireadBlogs/player.html |
| Online Tutorial for putting RSS feed of an iread blog on your website: RSS for Libraries http://www.swilsa.lib.ia.us/tutorials/RSSforLibraries/launcher.html |